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TOXICOLOGY AND APPLIED PHARMACOLOGY
Volume 236, Issue 2, Pages 194-201Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.taap.2009.01.024
Keywords
Matrix metalloproteinase; Reactive oxygen species; Acrolein; Atherosclerosis; Plaque destabilization; apoE-null mouse
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- EPA
- NIH [ES 11860, HL55477, HL59378]
- Philip Morris
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Acrolein is a ubiquitous component of environmental pollutants such as automobile exhaust, cigarette, wood, and coal smoke. It is also a natural constituent of several foods and is generated endogenously during inflammation or oxidation of unsaturated lipids. Because increased inflammation and episodic exposure to pollutants such as traffic emissions or cigarette smoke have been linked to acute myocardial infarction, we examined the effects of acrolein on matrix metalloproteinases (MMPS), Which destabilize atherosclerotic plaques. Our studies show that exposure to acrolein resulted in the secretion of MMP-9 from differentiated THP-1 macrophages. Acrolein-treatment of macrophages also led to all increase in reactive oxygen species (ROS), free intracellular calcium ([Ca2-](1)). and xanthine oxidase (XO) activity, ROS production was prevented by allopurinol, but not by rotenone or apocynin and by buffering changes in [Ca2+](1) with BAPTA-AM. The increase in MMP production was abolished by pre-treatment with the antioxidants Tiron and N-acetyl cysteine (NAC) or with the xanthine, oxidase inhibitors allopurinol or oxypurinol. Finally, MMP activity was significantly stimulated in aortic sections front apoE-null Mire Containing advanced atherosclerotic lesions after exposure to acrolein ex vivo. These observations suggest that acrolein exposure results in MMP secretion from macrophages via a mechanism that involves an increase in [Ca2-](1), leading to xanthine oxidase activation and all increase ill ROS production. ROS-dependent activation of MMPs by acrolein could destabilize atherosclerotic brief episodes of inflammation or pollutant exposure. (C) 2009 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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